juliansimioni

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by juliansimioni 11d ago
For me it was “the results speak for themselves” and then simply a (large) number of automated tests run that never had human eyes. Yes, quantity famously has a quality all its own, but perhaps not where correctness checks for something thi
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by juliansimioni 14d ago
I think the warning in the article is a little more subtle. The author isn’t placing a moral judgement on certain goals or whether the result of reaching that goal has a large enough audience. They are warning against doing things that work
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by juliansimioni 19d ago
I got both (because of course I did) with no problem. The welcome Suica came with a free notebook which I’m also using to collect the Japan Rail stamps https://www.jrailpass.com/blog/eki-train-stamps
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by juliansimioni 19d ago
It’s really a great conference, the OSM community is great and strongest in Europe. I’ve been to many and always come away inspired. Sadly (or, really, amazingly as it’s good to have so many options), another great, major geospatial confere
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by juliansimioni 20d ago
I am literally on a flight to Japan right now, and one of my main goals is to add a Suica card to my collection of transit cards from around the world (currently 31 cards large). Sadly physical cards may only have a few years left, for the
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by juliansimioni 5mo ago
Yes. And the fab companies and their suppliers are deliberately and wisely slow to scale up production to meet short term changes in demand. They've seen the history of the semiconductor industry, it's constant boom and bust cycle
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by juliansimioni 9mo ago
Fellow bootstrapped founder for 8 years here, and I love and agree with your responses here. Having previously existed in the VC-backed startup world, one thing I don't miss is the belief that its the _only_ rational way to run a busin
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
I think it's more than unwilling, we're straight up unable. Not in principle, but because it's a coordination problem. Think of how many parents now want their kids not to have a smartphone or social media. There's genui
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
In my social and meetup circle, COVID coincided with all the organizers of my favorite meetups reaching the age where one generally starts to slow down, have kids, and possibly move out of the city for more space and calm. At that point the
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
Similar to this: if you want to optimize your productivity*, do so on a timescale of at least weeks if not months or years. Simple example: Can you get more done working 12 hours a day than 8? Sure, for the first day. Second day maybe. But
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
This is super cool. As part of the Pelias geocoder( https://pelias.io/ ) we use both OSM and SQLite heavily. Currently we've written our own pbf2json tool in Golang ( https://github.com/pelias/pbf2jso
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
It's wild, and absolutely worth writing about, that at some point in recent years, the concept of "AFK" basically ceased to exist. Yes, we aren't technically near a keyboard most of the time today, but we are never AFK i
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
It's interesting that internet infrastructure is so interconnected that failures of what _should_ be separate systems seem to coincide. Do we think it's possible the GCP outage caused the Cloudflare outage, or vice versa? For Down
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
Another vote to confirm that AWS appears to be working fine. At least EC2 and S3 which is basically all we use (highly recommend this simple setup using base primitives, as some of their higher level services have significantly lower reliab
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
>Renewable energy in Japan will receive a *seismic shift* Maybe not the best analogy for the most earthquake-prone country in the world?
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
Like many, I also had an experience like this in my younger days: obviously unfit product, early prototype made by bottom-of-the-barrel contractors, co-founders who can't code, no salary, no users. I got lucky, and spent only a few mon
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
Geonames is a great dataset, in fact it's one of the "OG" open-source databases of the modern era, dating back to 2005. It has fairly comprehensive coverage of countries, cities, and major landmarks. It also has stable, simpl
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
AFAIK, a lot of the RAM requirements come from importing and processing the data. It already takes quite a long time and would be even slower without heavily utilizing RAM. Nominatim also doesn't support any sort of typeahead queries.
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
Are you committed to running the process locally due to privacy or legal reasons? If not, we securely run geocoding batches of that size at Geocode Earth all the time at pretty competitive rates. We are flexible on data transfer, usually we
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
Geocoding is a really fun (and sometimes frustrating) problem I've been lucky enough to have been working to solve for over 10 years now. I joined Mapzen in 2015 which ostensibly was part of a Samsung startup accelerator, but looking b
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
"we need to talk about your on call volunteering" "Really? I volunteered for 15 hours of on call" "Well, 15 is the minimum ok? Now it's up to you if you just want to do the bare minimum, or uh..well look at Bri
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by juliansimioni 1y ago
What happens when you need to encode the newline character in your data? That makes splitting _either_ CSV or LDJSON files difficult.
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by juliansimioni 2y ago
There's also the infamous bucket brigade from Hurricane Sandy. There was a Stack Overflow podcast about it but it looks like it disappears, here's a read though: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis&
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by juliansimioni 2y ago
Yes, that was the interdictor blog! https://interdictor.livejournal.com/2005/08/27/
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by juliansimioni 2y ago
High voltage direct current
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by juliansimioni 3y ago
So, to be clear, this is absolutely a case of these businesses making choices they know are harmful but are technically legal, and is bad. But I wonder if in the long term adding trace amounts of common allergens to many foods is a viable s
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by juliansimioni 4y ago
I really want to see it explain the famous Quake fast inverse square root, but apparently it's extremely rate limited right now
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by juliansimioni 4y ago
Dogfooding can often be a good thing but not if your target customer is a very different type of business than your own. For example, Stripe is a _very_ large company but their product is geared mostly towards small and medium size business
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by juliansimioni 4y ago
I just renewed my passport completely online through their beta program, and it was amazing. Only about two weeks from when I submitted the form to my new passport arriving. Hopefully that's the rough timeline for everyone going forwar
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by juliansimioni 4y ago
Hi! Maintainer of Pelias here and co-founder of Geocode Earth where we continue to fund Pelias development through our SaaS and consulting. You need to bring Who's on First data in to support administrative areas, it won't use adm

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